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Im IAN MILEY
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I AM A DESIGNER IN THE FIELDS OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN. I ENDEAVOR TO CREATE DESIGNS OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT THAT ENABLES INDIVIDUALS TO TAKE OWNERSHIP OF THEIR SPACE AND BETTER THEMSELVES THROUGH THEIR ENVIRONMENT. I WISH TO DESIGN WITH MULTI-DISCIPLINARY GROUPS, AS WELL AS TO DESIGN WITH, AND FOR, THE INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE ULTIMATELY THE INHABITANTS AND USERS OF THOSE DESIGNS. I AM A DEDICATED AND EVER-LEARNING DESIGNER THAT SEEKS TO BECOME BETTER WITH EVERY PROJECT THAT I TAKE PART IN EVEN IF ITS SMALL. MY GOAL BECOME DESIGNER THAT IS ACTIVELY ENGAGED AND ROOTED IN THE COMMUNITIES THAT I DEISGN FOR. SELECTED HERE ARE PROJECTS THAT SHOW MY PATH SO FAR AS I GROW AS A DESIGNER OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT. _IAN MILEY
OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY
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PHOENIX S.T.E.A.M. ACADEMY
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OKLAHOMA SHAKESPEARE THEATRE
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CHICAGO POST DISTRICT
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THE TWO RIVERS
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THE BLUE RIBBON
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ITERATIVE MOTIFS
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ALBANY WELLNESS CENTER
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FOUR SEASONS CHICAGO
MASTER OF URBAN DESIGN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS
PROFESSIONAL
contents and path
BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE
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Bachelor of architecture OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY_11-16
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PHOENIX S.T.E.A.M. ACADEMY A PLACE OF INTERACTION AND GROWTH IN THE DESERTS OF PHEONIX INDIVIDUAL PROJECT | 3RD YEAR | 6 WKS
Above: Outdoor Academy Court
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PHOENIX S.T.E.A.M. ACADEMY
A school is a place of growth where we become who we are. This process happens in stages and not just in the classroom but also in places of gathering, transition, and performance. A school should facilitate this process by providing flexible places that allow for students to communicate with one another, test boundaries, and spontaneously form bonds and habits that will last them into adulthood. The Phoenix steam academy was developed around the concept of community connectivity and how that affects our development. This led me to design the academy with vigilance to look for ways to not only facilitate education but also to sculpt a place that encourages socializing and community infiltration. The next largest factor that affected this 2 week project was the climate of phoenix.
A PLACE OF INTERACTION AND GROWTH IN THE DESERTS OF PHEONIX
Left Above: Early Perspective Sketch Left Below: System and Concept Diagrams
INDIVIDUAL PROJECT | 3RD YEAR | 6 WKS
Visualizing the Common Space
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PHOENIX S.T.E.A.M. ACADEMY
The skin of the academy is double layered with the glass being inner and a perforated corten metal screen beyond. The screen is more prevalent to the south to shield from the sun more throughly. The perforation pattern of the screen is however parametrically generated as to optimize the best allowable natural light into the school without overheating it. Providing an enjoyable space outdoors in phoenix is a difficult thing to do but with shade, elevated walking surfaces, and proper building mass placement it is possible. The creation of an outdoor room was achieved by defining the ceiling plane and creating a variety of spaces for different interactions.
A PLACE OF INTERACTION AND GROWTH IN THE DESERTS OF PHEONIX
Left Above: Rendered Site Plan Left Middle: North Elevation Left Below: South Elevation
INDIVIDUAL PROJECT | 3RD YEAR | 6 WKS
Sun, Shade, and Skin
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PHOENIX S.T.E.A.M. ACADEMY
The halls of a school are much more than places to get from class to class. They are places that students meet and see each other. This interaction is encouraged by the academy’s inner and outer hall concept. The outside hall is shaded to create a comfortable outside space in the Arizona Heat. The outter hall acts as an ambulatory space that is related to the inner hallways visually but physically separated by glazing. Interactions between students are further encouraged by having areas such as the gallery, breakout spaces, and maker spaces open to the main corridor.
A PLACE OF INTERACTION AND GROWTH IN THE DESERTS OF PHEONIX
Left Above: Inside the Academy Hallway Left Middle: Site Plan Left Below: NS Section
INDIVIDUAL PROJECT | 3RD YEAR | 6 WKS
Creating Layered Hallways for Increased Interaction
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OKLAHOMA SHAKESPEAREAN THEATRE PROCESSION AND INTEGRATION THROUGH SHARED EXPERIENCE INDIVIDUAL PROJECT | 4TH YEAR | 12 WKS
Above: Central Theater Space
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OKLAHOMA SHAKESPEAREAN THEATRE
The Paseo area of Oklahoma City is a mixing pot with its own cultural and physical character. This character is what drew Shakespeare in the Park to place its prospective permanent establishment here, on a vacant lot at the south east corner of the Paseo District. The driving concept for the theater was how it could act as a cultural anchor in between the Paseo and the Midtown area to the south of it. This is a institution that looks to the future and how the places of the Paseo and Midtown will grow in the future. This intentional look to the future is what raised the question of how a theater can both provide cultural enrichment but also community enrichment through shared artistic experience.
PROCESSION AND INTEGRATION THROUGH SHARED EXPERIENCE
Left: Storyboard Sketches
INDIVIDUAL PROJECT | 4TH YEAR | 12 WKS
Visualizing the Procession and Common Experience
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OKLAHOMA SHAKESPEAREAN THEATRE
The presence of the theater in the environment was a paramount for how it spoke to the area. I split the technical requirements, such as the fly and workshop, and the lobby of the building into two separate building masses to give each its own space. The two building masses are then joined by the theatre box itself which is placed below grade. Its placed there to prolong the procession and shared experience of partaking in the performing arts. This also allowed for the public plaza above that is envisioned to be a place for teaching theatre classes or engaging in the monthly arts festival when it is not serving as a much needed open space for the area.
PROCESSION AND INTEGRATION THROUGH SHARED EXPERIENCE
Left: Rendered Site Plan Bottom Left: Lower Level Plan Bottom Right: Ground Level Plan
INDIVIDUAL PROJECT | 4TH YEAR | 12 WKS
Setting the Stage and Integrating with the Surroundings
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OKLAHOMA SHAKESPEAREAN THEATRE PROCESSION AND INTEGRATION THROUGH SHARED EXPERIENCE INDIVIDUAL PROJECT | 4TH YEAR | 12 WKS
Left: Lower Level Plan Right: Ground Level Plan
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OKLAHOMA SHAKESPEAREAN THEATRE
As the project developed the systems became a part of the experience that drove design forward. When the theatre experience was being formulated I decided to expose much of the systems as well as the typically back of house functions. This meant that items such as the catwalks and lighting systems are brought or loosely veiled so that intrigue and curiosity about the workings of theatre can be fostered. This was meant to give a shared learning experience that serves to take individuals that may not normally share something and give them a chance to come into a new experience together.
PROCESSION AND INTEGRATION THROUGH SHARED EXPERIENCE
Left: Systems Axonometric
INDIVIDUAL PROJECT | 4TH YEAR | 12 WKS
Composing the Building Systems around the Experience
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project name
PROJECT TAGLINE
Left: Entry Render Right: Lobby Render
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Chicago post district USING A HISTORIC BUILDING TO CREATE A BETTER CITY GROUP PROJECT (4): DESIGNER AND MODEL MAKER | 5TH YEAR | 16 WKS
Above: View of the Chicago Post Riverfront
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Chicago post district
The Chicago Post District project was a urban redevelopment project in downtown Chicago. The project began as a response to an RFP for the redevelopment of the old post office in Chicago from the turn of the 19th century. My team chose to address the project by seeing the design opportunity as a means to rejuvenate the surrounding areas that have begun to lag behind in cultural and economical development. We saw our development as the catalyst for ecologically conscious growth in the area. This project examines the potential for existing architecture in an established fabric to be the foundation for a city to grow. It works in-between the spheres of architecture and urban design.
USING A HISTORIC BUILDING TO CREATE A BETTER CITY
Left: Steps of Process
GROUP PROJECT (4): DESIGNER AND MODEL MAKER | 5TH YEAR | 16 WKS
Visualizing the Process of Development
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As we worked we developed the mindset of imagining the area in idealized conditions. This meant we had to ask ourselves what were the positive aspects of the area to build on and the negative ones that could be remediable. We chose to relocate a highway underground and develop an ecological axis in it’s place along the site that would bring respect to the river and give an unifying aspect to the site. This axis took the form of artificial wetlands to purify on-site water and return it to the river. This water makes its way through a reconstructed wetlands down to the river passing by a redeveloped water front. A space along the river that follows the existing edge while also creating spaces that will foster river based activities such as kayaking, swimming, and hopefully one day fishing.
Chicago post district USING A HISTORIC BUILDING TO CREATE A BETTER CITY
Below: Rendered District Site Plan
GROUP PROJECT (4): DESIGNER AND MODEL MAKER | 5TH YEAR | 16 WKS
Unifying the Area
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Chicago post district
USING A HISTORIC BUILDING TO CREATE A BETTER CITY
Viable public space in chicago can be a difficult to come by the entire year due to the city’s climate. This drove us to design our public spaces in a way that the partakers would have a day lit space no matter what time during the day. This was achieved through orientation and providing winter gardens within the building, public spaces along the river, as well as communal spaces that are aggregated amongst the towers. What let us study this most thoroughly was the use of study models, lighting studies, and the sun-shaping of the building form.
GROUP PROJECT (4): DESIGNER AND MODEL MAKER | 5TH YEAR | 16 WKS
Modeling a New Face to an Old Landmark: Below Left: Early Study Model Below Middle: Mid-Review Model Below Right: Final Model
Hotel
Residential
Retail
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Public Space
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Museum
Co-Working
Office
Transit
Elevated Platform
Upper Public Space
When programming the project we realized that with over 3 million square feet we had the opportunity to create an extremely diverse mixed-use project. We also realized that we had an obligation to create public space that was not just along the ground plane, but also aggregated vertically. These spaces are shared by the residents, office workers, and retail patrons as they spend their daily lives in and around the development. These took the form of winter gardens in the existing light court, the perimeter platform, and the openings in the towers. All of which offer spaces through the year that are day lit and vegetated.
Chicago post district
Winter Garden
USING A HISTORIC BUILDING TO CREATE A BETTER CITY
Left: Program Diagrams Below: Public Space Renderings
GROUP PROJECT (4): DESIGNER AND MODEL MAKER | 5TH YEAR | 16 WKS
Programming the Development and Public Space
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Above: View Along Riverfront
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Master of urban design WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS_17-18
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The two rivers PLOTTING A NEIGHBORHOODS FUTURE AROUND ENVIRONMENTAL REHABILITATION GROUP PROJECT (2): DESIGNER AND PARTNER | 1ST YEAR | 8 WKS
Above: View of the Rehabilitative Riverfront
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Low Access to Quality Food Industrial Area Emergent Environment Area Semi-Controlled Environment Area Controlled Environment Area Major Road Highway Neighborhood Boundary NS Bus Stop EW Bus Stop
% of Children Testing Pos. for Lead
When initiating my research into the conditions around the proposed NS/SS Metrolink line in St. Louis, my partner and I began to understand the state of food availability and the saturation of lead within soil in St. Louis coincided with one another. Upon choosing a site in the south side, the Dutchtown Neighborhood, of St. Louis we began to formulate an urban design strategy that could map the future for that neighborhood while also tackling the major issues of food availability and lead saturation. Among those major issues we also looked to tackle more prosaic issues such as neighborhood connectivity and access to the languishing St. Louis riverfront.
The two rivers
% of Individuals in Food Desert
PLOTTING A NEIGHBORHOODS FUTURE AROUND ENVIRONMENTAL REHABILITATION
Left: Lead Saturation and Food Desert Map of St. Louis
GROUP PROJECT (2): DESIGNER AND PARTNER | 1ST YEAR | 8 WKS
Understanding the Environmental Condition of St. Louis
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Two Rivers Concept
Food Production
Mobility and Connectivity
Soil and Lead Remediation
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The two rivers
To tackle the environmental justice issues of the Dutchtown and Mount Pleasant neighborhoods a strategy that addresses their underlying issues and leverages their existing assets must be employed. Emerging out of focused research and local interaction came the clarification of three objectives: remediation of lead contaminated soils, production of healthy sources of food aggregated throughout the area, and increased access to natural amenities. Having taken note of existing and future flows of the area, our concept utilizes a metaphorical framework of two rivers. One a flow of connectivity and social concourse in the bed the former I-55, and the other a flow of food and emergent ecological corridors along the rivers edge.
PLOTTING A NEIGHBORHOODS FUTURE AROUND ENVIRONMENTAL REHABILITATION
Left Above: Concept Diagram Left Below: Connectivity Diagram Right Above: Food Production Diagram Right Below: Soil Remediation Diagram
GROUP PROJECT (2): DESIGNER AND PARTNER | 1ST YEAR | 8 WKS
Conceptualizing the Systems of the Two Rivers
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Left Below: Perfomative
Right: Neighborhood Plan
The two rivers
Left Above: Neighborhood
PLOTTING A NEIGHBORHOODS FUTURE AROUND ENVIRONMENTAL REHABILITATION GROUP PROJECT (2): DESIGNER AND PARTNER | 1ST YEAR | 8 WKS
Planning the Two Rivers
broadway bluffs section Soil Remediative Barges Reclaimed Barge Bluffs Walking and Bike Trails Natural Growth Park Community Croplands
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Community Gardens
Turn a Contaminate to food
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Our first river, the long and narrow corridor nested between the Mississippi River and S. Broadway, seeks to nurture and expand emergent ecologies / habitats while simultaneously producing agricultural crops upon remediated soils. The second river, more urban in scale, re-purposes the sunken I-55 as a dense and diverse corridor for mobility, collection, community, and habitation. In order to connect these two rivers with one another, and more importantly the larger urban fabric, several cross-grain land-bridges will also be strategically situated to act as means of community engagement and food distribution
Mixed Income Apartments Elevated Community Walkway Bike Lane NS/SS Metroline Community Info Display Community Bioswale
Rehabilitation of lead contaminated soil in St. Louis from construction excavation, vacant sites, and from our highways begins by reallocating it to vegetated barges, both integral to the landscape and floating, in south city St. Louis. These barges provided the benefits of public space and habitat. Throughout its remediation process the soil and vegetation is studying to understand how lead remediation strategies can continue to be developed. As the soil is remediated it then finds itself being usable for urban farming and returning to building sites. Being harvested, the lead contaminated plant matter is then handled by existing hazardous waste management services that are located just to the south of the Dutchtown and Mt. Pleasant Neighborhoods.
The two rivers
riverbed community section
PLOTTING A NEIGHBORHOODS FUTURE AROUND ENVIRONMENTAL REHABILITATION
Left Above: Neighborhood Sections Left Below: Perfomative Diagram Right Below: Neighborhood Sections Previous: Neighborhood Plan
GROUP PROJECT (2): DESIGNER AND PARTNER | 1ST YEAR | 8 WKS
Planning the Two Rivers
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The Riverbed Community area develops in and around the area in which I-55 used to occupy. It takes advantage of current bowl shaped topography to create a tiered space that offers multiple levels of publicness in its spaces. The bottom and most public being one of community, recreation, ecological service, and transit. Above this we have a space that acts as an elevated store lined street, and lastly the area above that being residences and balconies.
The two rivers
The Broadway Bluffs serves as both a productive landscape and a community one. As an individual moves from Broadway to the bluffs they pass through a mix of community gardens and crops until they enter into the reclaimed natural growth park that accommodates a combination of trails and paths for both humans and non-humans that runs the length of the bluffs. Lastly we have the bluffs that are repaired and extended by the addition of integrated barges.
PLOTTING A NEIGHBORHOODS FUTURE AROUND ENVIRONMENTAL REHABILITATION
Above: View in the Riverbed Community Below: EW Site Section
GROUP PROJECT (2): DESIGNER AND PARTNER | 1ST YEAR | 8 WKS
Creating Community in on the Former Highway
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The two rivers PLOTTING A NEIGHBORHOODS FUTURE AROUND ENVIRONMENTAL REHABILITATION GROUP PROJECT (2): DESIGNER AND PARTNER | 1ST YEAR | 8 WKS
Above: Model Photography
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The two rivers PLOTTING A NEIGHBORHOODS FUTURE AROUND ENVIRONMENTAL REHABILITATION GROUP PROJECT (2): DESIGNER AND PARTNER | 1ST YEAR | 8 WKS
Above: Confluence of the Two Rivers Section Perspective
BLUE RIBBON
POP-UP CLINIC
WAYFINDING
EXISTING RESOURCE
TRUCK STOP
EXSITING + EXPANDED CONVENIENCE STORE
TRUCK STOP/PICKUP ROAD CONNECTION
PROPOSED CLINIC PROPOSED GROCERY EXSITING + EXPANDED GARDEN
STREET LIGHT
PARKS
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BLUE SAFETY LIGHT
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SELF-RELIANCE FOR FOOD CAN BE APPROACHED BY THE EXPANSION OF EXISTING COMMUNITY GARDENS INTO ADJECENT VACANT LOTS.
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THE PAIRING OF POP-UP CLINICS WITH RECOGNIZED RECREATIONAL RESOURCES NORMALIZES A CULTURE OF PREVENTATIVE HEALTHCARE.
HAVING CONSISTANT PICK-UP AND DROP-OFF POINTS FOR THE MARKET TRUCK PROVIDES A CONSISTATNT SOURCE OF HEALTHY FOOD.
Above: The Blue Ribbon Framework Plan
The blue riBBON
BOLSTERING THE PRESENCE OF CIVIC ANCHOR NEAR AND IN THE WEST END GROWS A SAFER, MORE COHESIVE NEIGHBORHOOD.
CREATING A PLAN FOR COMMUNITY WELL-BEING IN NORTH ST. LOUIS
GROUP PROJECT (3): DESIGN AND VISUALIZATION | 1ST YEAR | 2.5 WKS
THE EXPANSION OF THE EXISTING CONVENIENCE STORES ALLOWS FOR A LOW COST NETWORK OF FOOD AVAILABILITY.
1. Pop-up Medical clinics
2. Enhance Recreation
3. Establish Free Clinic
SAFETY
MEDIATION CENTERS BLUE LIGHTS | STREET LIGHTS CIVIC ANCHOR
FOOD
MARKET TRUCK COMMUNITY GARDEN | LOCAL STORE ENHANCEMENT GROCERY STORE ESTABLISHMENT
HEALTHCARE
AREAS OF INFLUENCE
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HEALTH CARE
OBESITY RATES ASTHMA RATES VIOLENCE RATES
LIFE EXPECTANCY ACCESS TO FOOD ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE ACCESS TO SAFETY
LOW-KEY CLINIC RECREATION RESOURCE ENHANCEMENT FREE CLINIC ESTABLISHMENT
1. Mobile Market
2. Expand Gardens 3. Establish Grocer
FOOD
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2035 ENHANCEMENT
The life expectancy in the West End neighborhood is 74 years of age. In this short workshop we realized that we couldn’t approach this issue in a singular manner. Instead we choose to enhance multiple factors that would collectively raise the overall life expectancy within the neighborhood. These factors being the issues of Food, Healthcare, and Safety. Each of which have multiple tactics that are employed within the short, medium, and long term. Each of those tactics in some manner revolve around a “Blue Ribbon” of paint that is painted through the neighborhood so as to give a cost efficient visual indication of the investment into the neighborhood just as much as it is a means of way-finding to these investments.
The blue riBBON
3. Enhance Civic Anchors
CREATING A PLAN FOR COMMUNITY WELL-BEING IN NORTH ST. LOUIS
SAFETY
2. Blue Lights
GROUP PROJECT (3): DESIGN AND VISUALIZATION | 1ST YEAR | 2.5 WKS
1. Mediation Centers
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Phase I: We aimed to create an infrastructure, “The Blue Ribbon,” to bring the residents to the new resources as well as bring the resources to the residents. This will strengthen the existing connections between resources as well as create new connections that allow for further integration in the neighborhood. This new type of infrastructure will provide an identity for the West End to grow
Phase II: The second phase of our implementation aimed to expand upon the new connection between the resources and the existing neighborhood assets further bolstering the benefits of introducing “The Blue Ribbon.” With the infrastructural support of “The blue ribbon” we will enable these assets to reach their full potential in capacity and accessibility.
The blue riBBON
Phase III: The final phase of our strategy galvanizes the residents to take ownership of “The Blue Ribbon” in order for it to continue to grow and develop as the identity of the neighborhood with the hope to introduce new resources within the West End that address health, safety, and well-being of the community as it’s vitals improve.
CREATING A PLAN FOR COMMUNITY WELL-BEING IN NORTH ST. LOUIS
Left: Goodfellow Safety Corridor Vignette Middle: Mobile Market Food Stop Vignette Right: Park Located Pop-Up Clinic Vignette
GROUP PROJECT (3): DESIGN AND VISUALIZATION | 1ST YEAR | 2.5 WKS
The Phases and Future of the West End
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Above: Engaged Natural Space of the District
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Context in the North Dallas - Fort Worth Area
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Context with Intervention in Place
Iterative Motifs
The Cityline DART station in the north Dallas-Fort Worth area sits within a context of isolated developments, walled subdivisions, and corporate campuses. Understanding these suburban motifs are not inherently bad, just in need of alteration. I choose to develop a conceptual process of urban production. Thus motifs such as the Dallas Donut apartment block, the neighborhood subdivision wall, and the electrical power-line are the palette for what can be retooled to change the current narrative of the edge city and suburbs. These motifs will be interpreted and shaped in iteration over iteration as our periphery continues to grow and intensify. What must be paramount is that these iterations develop towards an urban form that engages individuals socially and integrates itself into nature in a meaningful way.
USING SUBURBAN MOTIFS TO CREATE A MORE SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL URBAN FORM
Left Above: Context Map Left Below: Intervention in Context
INDIVIDUAL PROJECT: 1ST YEAR | 12 WEEKS
Approaching the Site
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Iterative Motifs
As I jumped scale to the site, I began to understand that the site could act as a connection between the corporate offices to the east (displayed as up here) and the rest of the disjointed developments in the area. To study these forces I choose integrate the study of site forces and my initial study modeling. This approach allowed me to understand the network of current circulation and the way the project would affect those patterns. This showed me that some of the major issues affecting the site were that much of the existing fabric did not engage the public sphere, it reinforced the nature v. building dichotomy, and was typically mono-programmatic.
USING SUBURBAN MOTIFS TO CREATE A MORE SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL URBAN FORM
Below: Study Model Photography
INDIVIDUAL PROJECT: 1ST YEAR | 12 WEEKS
Studying Site Forces
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Service
Pub./Priv. Transect
Water Management
The major spatial articulation that I took was to critique the cloistered apartment complex common throughout the DFW area and beyond, referred to as the Dallas Donut. Typically consisting of a single loaded corridor around an ineffectual court that is typically filled with a parking garage. Instead what I proposed is the inversion of this typical arrangement. Opening that court and relocating the parking garage along a service ally. Opening this court up to a network of public space allows for a transition from public to private that engages what would typically be ineffectual for creating a strong public discourse. This new form is then adapted to the forces on the given site as well as its form begins to change depending on the program of the building.
Iterative Motifs
Circulation
USING SUBURBAN MOTIFS TO CREATE A MORE SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL URBAN FORM
Left: Site Plan Below: Dallas Donut Apartment Block Transformations Bottom: Site System Diagrams
INDIVIDUAL PROJECT: 1ST YEAR | 12 WEEKS
Engaging with an Existing Typology for a Better Urban Form
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Iterative Motifs USING SUBURBAN MOTIFS TO CREATE A MORE SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL URBAN FORM INDIVIDUAL PROJECT: 1ST YEAR | 12 WEEKS
Above: Public Private Transition between Court and Street
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CHAIN LINK POWERLINE STRUCTURE GARAGE DOOR SUBDIVISION WALL MOM VAN
Water Management
Pub./Priv. Transect
The transect as one moves from the semi-private court to the public natural space is where much of the operative part of the project lies, consisting of the socio-spatial system and the ecological system. The socio-spatial system progress from inside, private, to outside, public, in a series of zones: 1st floor public program, the shared court, a series of flexible commerce pavilions that flank a shared street, then finally an emergent natural space. The ecological system is a water management strategy that aims to slow water while providing integrated green spaces throughout. As the water makes its way down the series of elevated planters it feeds them water while also slowing and utilizing water in a region frequently plagued by flash flooding.
Iterative Motifs
Air Flow
USING SUBURBAN MOTIFS TO CREATE A MORE SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL URBAN FORM
Left: Detailed Section Middle: Suburban Motifs Right: System Diagrams
INDIVIDUAL PROJECT: 1ST YEAR | 12 WEEKS
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Iterative Motifs USING SUBURBAN MOTIFS TO CREATE A MORE SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL URBAN FORM INDIVIDUAL PROJECT: 1ST YEAR | 12 WEEKS
Above: Detailed Plan
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Iterative Motifs USING SUBURBAN MOTIFS TO CREATE A MORE SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL URBAN FORM INDIVIDUAL PROJECT: 1ST YEAR | 12 WEEKS
Above: Public Private Court
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PROFESSIONAL CHICAGO, IL
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albany wellness center EXPLORING HEALTH THROUGH MOVEMENT AND NATURE
AS A MEMBER OF CANOPY ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN | CONTRIBUTING DESIGNER AND GRAPHIC DEVELOPER
Above: View of Community Gardens
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albany wellness center
Above: Ground Floor space
EXPLORING HEALTH THROUGH MOVEMENT AND NATURE
AS A MEMBER OF CANOPY ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN | CONTRIBUTING DESIGNER AND GRAPHIC DEVELOPER
The Albany Wellness Center is a redevelopment of an existing CHA senior housing development. The existing housing though overall functioning well, did not have a strong connection to its surrounding grounds. We looked at the unused capacity within the surrounding grounds as a way to promote longevity, social health, and overall wellness. The design approach from there took an approach that cultivated ground floor amenities and thus connecting them to an entirely re-imagined exterior network of gardens, walking paths, and flexible gathering spaces
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Above: Site Plan
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four seasons chicago RE-IMAGINING A TIMELESS STANDARD IN HOSPITALITY BY CELEBRATING its HISTORY
AS A MEMBER OF OKW ARCHITECTS | ASSOCIATE
Above: Lobby Reception Area
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four seasons chicago
Opp. Above: Lobby Social Lounge Opp. Below: Lakeview Restaurant Entry Above: Site Photos of Lobby
RE-IMAGINING A TIMELESS STANDARD IN HOSPITALITY BY CELEBRATING ITS HISTORY
AS A MEMBER OF OKW ARCHITECTS, ASSOCIATE
The Four Seasons Chicago has been a standard in hospitality in Chicago for generations. This has been so due to a number of factor: their service, their diligence, and not least of all their space itself. For the current update to their space in 900 N Michigan we saw that their future is best charted by being reflective of their past while also looking to creating an sense of refinement and modern luxury for their guests and staff. From the first step into the lobby to the guest-rooms this refinement acted as a through line for every step in the design.
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RE-IMAGINING A TIMELESS STANDARD IN HOSPITALITY BY CELEBRATING its HISTORY I particularly focused on the development of the hotels most extensive and refined unit, The Presidential Suite. This unit is actually a combination of four units that can be rented separately or if desired as a complete suite. Clean lines and a simple aesthetic were what dominated in this space. This presented itself in a palette of neutral tones and an expression of the materials themselves. This palette was then paired with simple geometries to create a space that feels holistic without being overbearing. This allows for a refined experience that allows guests to relax.
Opp. Above: Presidential Suite Plan Opp. Below: Mater Bedroom Above: Main Living Room
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME
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